We’ve been asked often by the schools who use our software how to set it up for online scrip ordering. We used to discourage this, because of one big issue – the fees you pay your merchant processor for credit-card processing can eat up the margins on scrip. But ever since we added the ability
... continue reading.Last year Portland Public Schools parents raised over 3 million dollars through fundraisers. Considering these are dollars raised by numerous volunteer hours and unquantifiable energy costs, that number is staggering. Fortunately, these schools (44 of them) have the support of the Portland Public Schools Foundation (PPSF) under the nonprofit umbrella of All Hands Raised. In
... continue reading.I love checklists. And with a large, complicated project like planning an auction, they can be incredibly useful. So, we’re putting our heads together here, and starting a project to write and publish a series of auction checklists that you can download and print. We’re starting with 7 Auction Night Front Desk Essentials – stuff
... continue reading.So, I’m the marketing guy here. And that means that I’m supposed to find all sorts of ways to advertise and promote us and toot our horn, so that we can sell more software, and stay in business. But really, most days I kind of feel like a fraud when I think about that. See,
... continue reading.How do you turn auction event guests into long term donors? Rose Backs, a benefit auctioneer serving Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington, has some food for thought. —— One of the questions I hear over and over again is “Why isn’t my event growing?” I believe there are typically a multitude of answers but for
... continue reading.This week’s update adds a new field to the Item Edit Screen – the Will Call Flag. This allows you to note whether an item is a Gift Certificate, or a physical thing (we’re calling those Pickup Items). Chairs, Admins, and Volunteers will be able to see which is which – there is an icon
... continue reading.This week, we are releasing two new features to the software that we think will make many of our experienced customers very happy. If you want to clean up your Users list, you will be able to merge records that describe the same people. Find out how here. And if you are offering Mobile Bidding at your
... continue reading.Update: 2/21/16: It’s all fixed now. You can go back to using the green help widget on the side. Update – 2/20/16: Well, most of it was fixed. There is still an issue between the elev.io serivce (which provides the little help widget along the right side of your auction site) and Zendesk (which provides the
... continue reading.Games are a wonderful way to generate energy, excitement and laughter at an auction. You’ve probably heard of Heads or Tails. Are you familiar with Chicken Bingo? Here are a few more suggestions from the Greater Giving blog. Are there any others you would add? Jewelry Box Game Get a local jewelry store to donate a
... continue reading.It’s a new calendar year and some of you may already be looking ahead at next school year’s auction. It’s time to start thinking about building your team. Or it could even be time for the auction chair to find (gasp!) a replacement. Let’s take an inside look at our handy e-book The SchoolAuction.net Guide to
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